Jini Maxwell

Jini Maxwell is a writer and curator who lives in Naarm. They are an assistant curator at ACMI, where they also host the Women & Non-binary gamers club. They write about videogames and the people who make them. You can find them on Twitter @astroblob

Jini Maxwell's Latest Articles

Two pastel-toned cartoon characters sit on an outlook near the beach. Image from surf club, an upcoming videogame by Olivia Haines.
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The Australia Council for the Arts wants to fund videogames

The Australia Council's 2021-4 digital culture strategy makes funding videogames a priority, including non-commercial art games.

A screenshot from Akupara Games' Mutazione. An illustrated image of a group of people gathered around, smiling and talking.
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The Indie Houses brings international collaboration to games publishing

The new publishing collective The Indie Houses brings together seven international games publishers with an 'indies for indies' approach. They…

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Review: No Longer Home offers a gentle, personal story about adulthood

No Longer Home deals with a familiar form of melancholy with a delicate touch, but sometimes, it borders on insubstantial.

Screenshot from Phantom Abyss by Team WIBY, published by Devolver Digital
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Phantom Abyss is online multiplayer without the scheduling nightmare

Team WIBY's Ben Marrinan explains how they developed Phantom Abyss for a generation who treats games as a digital living…

IGDA Foundation Virtual Exchange participant Nik Pantis previously worked on AGDA winning title Moving Out, at SMG Studios.
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Australian game devs accepted into prestigious IGDA Foundation program

The latest cohort in the International Game Developers’ Association (IGDA) Foundation's Diverse Game Developers' Virtual Exchange has been announced.

A screenshot from IGF Award winner Umurangi Generation
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Umurangi Generation wins highest honour at the IGF Awards

The Australian/Maori antifascist photography game took IGF 2021 Seumas McNally Grand Prize among brilliant competition.

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You should play... SNKRX

There has never been a more perfect answer to the question, ‘do you have games on your phone?’

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Keywords Studios acquires Tantalus, will create 130 more gamedev jobs

Tantalus founder Tom Crago will oversee the new studio, which will become Keywords Australia.

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Indigenous games express culture through play

These games showcase the incredible diversity of culturally-informed, Indigenous-made games from around the world.

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Necrobarista, money, and the miserable business of artistic games

The lead artist on the award-winning Melbourne game alleges missing and inconsistent payments, and poor workplace culture. These issues are…

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